Be careful when you say those things. You are putting impeachment's supporters and people who don't think it's a coup in the same boat. Yes, I don't support Rousseff's impechment, I don't like her way of governing the country and much less the interim government of president Michel Temer. I never said that everything is fine in Brasi, here or anywhere. I do not think it's a coup. The president of the country was not deposed from office and stroke definitions of coup talks in a "sudden breakdown of democratic normalcy." This is a process that began in December 2015 and continues to this day. She could defend herself throughout the process. I can not say here if she will or not lose her position, I can't make this decision. I also think that Brazil is a democratic and sovereign country. Brazil has full condition to solve its internal problems. Remember that the impeachment is an internal process of the country and the greatest interesteds must be the brazilian people. I'm sorry that all those who wish the success of the Olympic Games are here labeled as people who "only want to know about the party" and people who "have no awareness of what's going on in the country. Not because I have a different opinion of his that so I am an "ignorant of politics." Not because I do not think there is a coup in the country Cunha support, Renan, Temer and others. Brazil is experiencing a very serious moment, it is true. But it made a commitment to the whole world to host the Olympic Games in Rio, we can't change that.

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I really think the torch relay should be eliminated... the torch should be lightened just days before the Opening Ceremony and just arrive to the Host city...

It's waste of time, money and in every edition there is fewer and fewer interest about it....

A shame you think that. The torch relay four years ago was a brilliant success in terms of numbers (it was reported around 15 million saw it) and seeing it come down my High Street was the moment the Olympics really felt real.

Yesterdays news was terrible, and I think the small protests haven't helped, but I'm sure there are many in Brazil who now feel the same as I - and many millions in the UK - did four years ago.

Too bad you guys bought this story about this random jaguar... It has no relation AT ALL to the Rio 2016 committee or the torch relay, since the incident occurred much later that day, hours and hours after the pics with the Olympic Flame. The Rio 2016 torch relay is a success so far and protests against the interim government are minor and non-disruptive. Of course brown media is and will be feeding you with the worst about the games, as they did with the 2007 Pan Ams, as they did with the 2014 WC, as they did during the 2016 bid and as they've been doing now.

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I think the dousing of water is a rite because that was June 24, St. John the Baptist day. It's a ritual in towns named after the Saint to douse each other with water on his day. So there is some sound significance to that.

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I think the dousing of water is a rite because that was June 24, St. John the Baptist day. It's a ritual in towns named after the Saint to douse each other with water on his day. So there is some sound significance to that.

I honestly thought it was part of the St. John the Baptist day because I have cousins who come from the town of San Juan (in the Philippines, outside Manila), and they douse each other with water on June 24 there.